6 Stable Management and the Prevention of Disease 



weight. It would add greatly to the comfort of the horses if 

 the ends of the blankets were fastened together by some of 

 the broad native tape called niwar, so as to keep them close 

 round the breast and hind-quarters when the wind blows. 



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The rollers with which the blankets are kept on require 

 frequent inspection. The pads are not so weU stuffed as those 

 of English make, and after a time become pressed so flat that 

 the central portion rests upon the spine, and not unfrequently 

 makes the back sore. 



Position of Stables. 



In building stables sufficient attention is not always paid 

 to the direction in which their ends lie, a point of great 

 importance. They should be made with their sides opposed 

 to the prevailing winds, in order that the air may sweep freely 

 across them. 



When there are two or three lines of stabling they should, 

 if the ground is large enough, be built in Echelon, so that the 

 emanations from one may not be blown into the other. When 

 this is impossible they should be as far apart as the space 

 will allow. 



In order that there may be no impediment to the free 

 passage of air in every direction, stables should have no 

 buildings near them ; and, above all, they should be as far as 

 possible from the regimental bazaar, because it swarms with 

 flies and affords too much facility for the abstraction of the 

 horses' food. 



Plooks of Covered Stables. 



The flooring of the Government stables is sometimes very 

 defective, being in certain stations composed of porous earth, 

 into which urine easily soaks. I have even known it made 

 of mud taken from the bottom of a dry tank, and full of 

 decaying animal and vegetable matter. 



Floors of solid concrete, or of firebrick set in Eoman cement, 



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